Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Reviews

I use Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for finance. Our accountants enter transactions, I review them and handle month-end closing. I also help with updates and train my team on using the system.

The most valuable features of Business Central for me are its seamless integration with Power BI and the ability to create customized reports. These features save us time and effort in analyzing our results.

There is room for improvement in the ability to reverse or correct transactions more easily. Currently, if we make mistakes or need to undo something, it can be challenging and time-consuming. Simplifying the process for reversing transactions would be helpful.

I have been working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for two years.

I would rate the stability of the solution as an eight out of ten. I find Business Central to be a stable system. However, we experienced issues with updates in our previous system where the cost of goods sold wasn't recognized after updates. Our consultants addressed the problem, and it has been stable since.

I would rate the scalability of the solution as an eight out of ten. Business Central is highly scalable and suitable for both small and medium-sized enterprises.

I would rate the initial setup of Business Central as a seven out of ten for ease. Transitioning from our previous software was a bit challenging for our accounting team, especially with reversing transactions, but they became more comfortable over time.

It took about one and a half months to deploy Business Central, including a month for preparation and migration. We worked with consultants to integrate Navision and customize layouts. Maintenance is managed centrally with about three to four hours of consultant involvement per month for any issues.

I would rate the pricing of Business Central as a six or seven out of ten in terms of costliness. We have yearly licensing costs, and the biggest additional expense is for external consultants.

Business Central has simplified our financial reporting by integrating with our business intelligence tools like Borg and Power BI. With everything connected, we can automatically upload data, view balance sheets, and P&L statements, and drill down into details to understand our results better. It is all seamless and makes it easy to analyze and track our financial performance.

The customer relationship function in Business Central has had the biggest impact on our efficiency. We monitor accounts receivable, analyze them, and improve cash flow by identifying clients who haven't paid. Sales managers then follow up with them, helping us plan our cash flow better. 

The inventory management feature in Business Central helps us optimize stock levels by analyzing goods by lot and their expiration dates. We prioritize selling items with upcoming expiration dates to avoid losses. This helps us manage our stock effectively and minimize expenses.

Business Central supports our decision-making process with its data analytics and reporting tools by allowing us to analyze stock levels, allocate goods to key clients, and determine appropriate discounts. 

My main recommendation for new users is to involve a legal consultant and ensure proper planning from the start when implementing Business Central. This can help avoid potential issues and save time in the long run.

Overall, I would rate Business Central as a nine out of ten.

We implemented the solution for an insurance company. It was a full-stack implementation for new business units. The solution is used for communication and collaboration.

The tool covers most of the business requirements that most companies have, especially financial institutions.

The solution must provide more AI features. It will help in the collaboration of content generation and summarization of content.

I have been using the solution for a few years.

The product is quite stable. I rate the stability a nine out of ten. The stability of the communication platform is not always good.

The scalability is quite good. I didn’t have any issues with the scalability. We have a single customer with a user base of 5000. We have three people looking after the ongoing maintenance.

The support is good. It is better than the support I receive for other Microsoft products.

The setup is straightforward. It took us two and a half weeks to deploy the tool. The solution is deployed on the cloud. We have three engineers to deploy the product.

The solution is a little bit expensive. We pay a yearly licensing fee.

I recommend the solution to others. People who want to invest in the solution must look carefully at the business case they're trying to solve. They must ensure that they satisfy their requirements with a good price point. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

The solution can be used to manage everything inside of your business. This includes, and not limited to, accounting, resources, inventory, logistics, sales, purchases, employee management, and protection. 

We are very dependent on this solution. We manage almost all of our business processes, it has helped us a lot. We could not live without it.

There is a lot of improvement needed in the top model, such as better integration with logistics, quality management, and data modeling for all revenue types. The revenue resources could be improved by having one common table with revenues. Furthermore, I have found when it comes to customization of the solution, I have had to do some modifications in areas to cover our requirements this has been the case with my colleagues and other companies as well.

In the future, there could be a better connection to Microsoft CRM and the field service area within this solution needs improvement. Microsoft Dataverse is a program where you can exchange data between the two solutions and there needs to be better integrated.

I have been using this solution for approximately 30 years.

The solution is stable.

The customer support is good. The first level of support agent in every case was able to solve the problem very quickly.

The installation is easy.

The price of the solution is reasonable.

My advice to those wanting to implement this solution is to train and educate their new developers and in-house staff about the solution.

I rate Microsoft Dynamics NAV a ten out of ten.

We are using the E5 license. So everything across the E5.

The security feature, particularly the encryption, which still builds sensitivity, is one of the most valuable features. 

There is room for improvement in terms of compatibility. Compatibility with Mac is not there. Many functionalities are visible on the Windows version that are missing on the Mac.

We have been using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for one year. So it's the most efficient version we get.

It is a stable solution. 

It is a scalable solution. There are around 50 to 100 users in our organization. We plan to increase the usage with time. 

The initial setup is straightforward. But it takes time based on need because we are growing too. So it's not like we fully set up at once.

Five to ten technical staff members are enough for the integration and maintenance. 

You need to pay for a license, but the monthly cash flow option is affordable.

I would recommend the solution. Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

We really like the applications, including SharePoint, Teams, and the M365 Suite. 

It is very user-friendly.

The initial setup is easy.

The pricing isn't overly expensive.

It is stable.

Technical support from local partners has been good. 

I work in Pakistan, and many people want desktop solutions. They don't want to work on the cloud. They want a strictly on-premises solution. 

The pricing could always be better.

I've been using the solution for four to five years. 

The stability is good in the Pakistani market. I'd rate it nine out of ten. There aren't bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze. 

Technical support is fine. they are helpful and responsive, and we are satisfied with the level of support we receive. We get help from local partners, and they've been very good. 

Positive

The product has been easy to set up. It's not complex at all. I'd rate the process eight out of ten in terms of ease of deployment. 

The time to deploy depends on the industry that they're deploying. It's typically quite simpler. 

We handled the initial setup in-house. We have an IT team and a project manager that can handle setup tasks. 

The licensing is reasonable. They also provide data management and recovery via backups. I'd rate the affordability seven out of ten based on the costs in the Pakistani market. Local partners will charge for implementation, which could be an extra cost for a company.

We did evaluate SAP as well and decided on this solution. 

We are Microsoft partners. 

I'd advise potential new users to make a comparison and look at the features they require. If this product can integrate with their modern workplace, then they should go for it. 

I'd rate the product nine out of ten. 

I mainly use it for PowerPoint presentations and Word documents.

I prefer on-premise solutions. So I need help to work in this environment. There is room for improvement in terms of stability, and it could be more stable.

I have been using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for two years. I am using the latest version.

It is a stable solution. I would rate it an eight out of ten.

It is a scalable solution. There are more than 5,000 end users in my organization.

Speaking from my experience, I advise you to first educate yourself on how to use it properly. Additionally, you should ensure a stable internet connection before using it.

Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten.

We use this solution for finance purposes. We're using a version from 2020.

The solution is deployed on-premises.

There are about 10 people using this solution in my organization.

It's quite reliable, and there's a good local provider who can adapt the solution for tax issues.

This solution can be used in combination with Microsoft Office 365 with the cloud version.

We want to use this solution for our entire production company. We want to expand to other functions of the ERP, but it isn't a good solution for production companies.

I would like to see some quality control and quality assurance. It's very hard to find anything except SAP, so we have to find a special solution.

I have worked with the solution for 18 years.

It's quite stable. We don't have any issues with bugs.

For a big company like us with millions of transactions, the scalability isn't enough. For example, we were thinking of going to Dynamics for multi-transactions, MPS, and MRP, but this isn't enough. It's scalable but only up to a certain point.

We have technical support through our partner, but the solution provided by Microsoft is stable. We always have problems with add-ons locally, which are necessary for local taxes. Microsoft is making a Central Europe package, which should comply with tax laws in Central European countries. Our local provider is making one more add-on to be compliant with these local tax issues. There are several issues, especially with the speed.

We have also used a solution called Glovia. Their financial solution wasn't very good for Czech tax, and there was no support for Czech taxes so we had to cut it. Now, we have two systems, but we just want to use one. We don't know if Business Central can be expanded or if something else will have to be deployed.

Initial setup is quite easy. Deployment took six months.

We deployed it together with our current ERP system, which wasn't good for the financial system. We analyze the structure and which functions to transfer to Microsoft.

The function is for bank connections. If you install just the finance part, it's quite straightforward. You have a chart of accounts, set up the connection with the ERP or with the other softwares, and set up the connections for the next processes, which use the data from Microsoft. Then, you connect to the data warehouses for Power BI or other reporting platforms. Of course, the biggest issue is that 80% of the time involves evaluation.

The biggest issues are quite easy to set up but small things delay the perfect process.

We need two people for deployment: one IT person and one in finance. It's not difficult to maintain the solution.

The license changes every year. Sometimes it's for fixed users, and sometimes it's for concurrent users.

I would rate the solution as seven out of ten. 

My advice is to check the solution for local taxes and check to see if it covers the material flow for production needs, like ordering, planning, sales, and purchasing.

We need to find a provider who will be a good support. The right consultant and support is very essential.

For my clients, the most important feature of Microsoft Dynamics NAV has been the workflows, including how organized the information flows across. That has been the key reason for the entire migration, and why my clients have been using Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

My clients have multiple business areas, and each business area is independent and uses Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It's not like one license is being used across business units. Now my clients are trying to remove all of that, in particular, remove all those multiple systems and bring them into one omnichannel.

For me, the main strengths of Microsoft Dynamics NAV are that it's user-friendly and light. These are its major wins. I have used other ERPs and their architecture were a little more complex when compared to the Microsoft Dynamics NAV architecture. The solution is customizable and user-friendly, and these are the key elements that I like best about Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

One of the main areas my clients had concerns with was the reporting function of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, and it probably depends on what level of licensing clients have. These are not complex users, and I'm not talking about millions of cases or tickets. This is a very limited number of users who felt that reporting is one of the areas for improvement in the solution.

Each department has gone and bought tools independently, and there's no interdepartmental communication, so another pain point is integrating Microsoft Dynamics NAV with other tools. There are so many systems running, so it's not entirely the fault of Microsoft Dynamics NAV why some customers are moving. It could be because prior business decisions were different from what they are now.

Another pain point or area for improvement was that any request that had come from the website had to go through an e-form which was then plugged into Microsoft Dynamics NAV. There was no direct data capture. That was the pain point, where clients had to build e-forms, and that caused delays in transactions and getting information. I'm unsure if the design was incorrect, so I'm unable to comment on it, but that is one of the pain points or areas for improvement in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

I find Microsoft Dynamics NAV stable. It's fluid and stable enough for the loads my customers are using. I can't comment beyond that. There are one hundred fifty to twenty thousand tickets a year, and based on that volume, the solution is stable. There's no problem with it.

Microsoft Dynamics NAV is scalable. I like it. It's light and fast enough. I don't know why some customers are migrating. They can upgrade Microsoft Dynamics NAV or modify certain elements if they can and use it, as opposed to moving to another solution.

My clients had no technical issues and their usage was also limited, so they didn't contact the technical support team of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. Based on their usage, raising tickets, or anything about flow, there were no problems.

I have not done a setup for Microsoft Dynamics NAV before. I have only worked on my existing projects but have not set up the solution, so I have no comment on how straightforward or complex the setup is.

We didn't compare Microsoft Dynamics NAV with other ERP systems. What we are trying out is an enterprise booking tool that will replace Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

I have experience with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, but not with IFS.

I'm currently doing a project with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. I'm a consultant who works with migration tools. For example, in 2011 and 2015, I worked on migration projects and did migrations over to new platforms.

Currently, I have under twenty-five users of Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

I don't know what the maintenance fees of my clients are. The reasons for them changing to a different solution have nothing to do with the product, with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. It's a change in the business model. The pricing for the product is not the reason why clients are switching over, for example, one was buying a house, and now everybody is getting together and buying one solution.

I'd give Microsoft Dynamics NAV a rating of six from my exposure to it and what I've learned about it from end-users and its limitations.

My company is a partner of Microsoft.